"...they make no use of tables; but only of the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of certain numbers, of which we do not presently discern the ground, nor to what these numbers refer."
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Fellows of the Royal SocietyAstronomers from ItalyAstrologers from ItalyCatholics from ItalyImmigrants to France
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quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer.
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